I hope this is the appropriate forum for this problem and that somebody can help.
First off, a long time ago, I tried out an earlier version of mIRC on my Computer, and it is still installed (I believe it's Version 5.11). At that time, I was using America Online as my Provider. However, I am no longer using it, though it is still installed on my Computer. I choose to keep it installed in case I need to go back into it and look at an EMail that I might have sent to somebody or that they responded to, so I would rather not delete it unless I have to. In addition, I am still using Windows 95 on this Computer, but please don't tell me to upgrade the OS, as that is not an option with this Computer, at least not at this time.
I recently decided that I wanted to try out mIRC again after this long hiatus, and after I logged on with my current Provider, I went to start up mIRC and ran into a problem. This problem seems to be similar to a problem described in Section 6-34 of the mIRC FAQ on the Website, in case anybody would like to refer to that section. I hope some Computer Guru out there can help me out.
When I started mIRC up ...
a requestor titled "Winsock" come up with a big red X on the left and says "Please run America Online and sign on first". When I click "OK" another requestor titled "mIRC" pops up with a big red X which says "[10091] Network Subsystem is unavailable". When I click "OK" the requestor and mIRC both close.
Since I am using Windows 95 with this software, I'm almost positive that the problem is the issue described in Section 6-34 of the mIRC FAQ, or at least related to it. However, I'm not sure how to do what is described in that section without screwing up my machine.
When I run Regedit and look at MyComputer \HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE \System \CurrentControlSet \Services \VxD\MSTCP I see the following (The HostName listed below has been chenged to protect the Innocent <g>):
Name Data
(Default) (value not set)
EnableDNS "0"
HostName "v555499"
LMHostFile "C:\WINDOWS\lmhosts"
This is all I see. I don't see the Domain and NameServer fields that the FAQ refers to. Coincidentally, the HostName listed in that key (not the one shown above) is the same as the User Name for the Dialup-Connection that I currently use.
When I go to "Network" in Control Panel, I find that there is both of the following:
TCP/IP -> Dial-up Adaptor
TCP/IP -> AOL Adaptor
The Following are also in there:
AOL Adaptor
Dial-up Adaptor
IPX/SPX compatible Protocol -> AOL Adaptor
IPX/SPX compatible Protocol -> Dial-up Adaptor
Client for Microsoft Networks
Client for NetWare Networks
NetBEUI -> Dial-up Adaptor
File and printer sharing for Microsoft Networks
When I double click each of the 2 TCP/IP entries and look at DNS Configuration, both show that DNS is disabled.
Does anybody have any idea what I need to do to fix this problem? Once I can get the old version to work I will feel confidant enough to Download the new version and try it out.
Thanks in advance.
